Pastor Jackie McCullough - Where Is The Glory In the Praise?

halleluja halleluja everyone resting to your feet would you receive this great gift to the body of Christ the founder of bethe Rafa we give God praise for her gift how many have been encouraged by her ministry then why don't you praise them for the expectation you have for that word tonight pastor Jackie McCulloch as she comes at this time his grace is sufficient to keep us and his strength is made perfect in weakness if you've been strengthened by the Lord give him a standing ovation right now I greet you tonight in the name of Jesus thanking the Lord for safe travel bringing us through the highways of the sky the plane landed that's always a blessing in then and I am here with family and the person of bishop elect Marvin Winans and we want to salute him one more time one more time amen to to all of the pulpit dignitaries to all of you who are leaders and ministers and evangelists and missionaries pastors wives to the host pastor or the pastor of this church and to his wife want to say a special praise the Lord to you a man and to every member of Christ's Church you're special to God turn around and tell your neighbor you're special to the Lord amen amen you may be seated praise the Lord it's good to be back at holy convocation and holy convocation is not something that we have made up when you read the scriptures especially the Old Testament they came together to worship the Lord they sang together they prayed together they gained strength together and they went back and lived a life of holiness from that particular setting tell your neighbor I'm taking home a whole lot this week it's a whole lot that the Lord did amen my assignment is to bring you the Word of God and I'm going to ask you to turn your Bibles to the 108 Psalm Psalm 108 and I'm just going to read one verse the first verse the Psalm 108 verse 1 you may have to get it up on your i-pod or your iPhone I'm reading from the King James Version you may have another version when in Psalm 108 verse 1 here begins a reading of God's Word God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise even with my glory so far the text and the subject or the title is in a question where is the glory in the praise where is the glory in the praise I love the Psalms I love the Psalms because contrary to what most proficient outstanding preachers think they're not just cute poetry and they're not just sermons for beginning preachers when you dig into the Psalms you find that the Psalms took talk about praise and that's the name of the book book of praise but it takes you into the life of the ancient Hebrews but also the first century church Jesus quoted the Psalms the Apostles use the songs the sons what's up in the first song it talks to you about what God requires that you meditate day and night the Psalms also opens up your human emotions you know many many churches you go to you can't speak above a whisper because they'll put you out of the service can't raise your hand can't clap your hands but when I read the Bible the Psalms teach me that my emotions must be engaged in worship that I should not divorce my feelings from my god so the sons this arms of Psalms of complaint hear my cry oh God so Christians do cry attend unto my prayer from the ends of the earth will I cry unto thee and when my heart is overwhelmed when I just can't handle it anymore lead me to the rock that is higher than I for thou has been a shelter for me strong tower from my enemy there are individual Psalms Psalms written by David and ASAP and Eamon but they're also National Psalms Psalms that they sang at their congregation when they gather together and went up those steps to the temple the Psalms of ascent or the Psalms of the of degree when they walked up they said praise the Lord for His mercy endureth forever let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath what redeemed from the hands of the enemy the Psalms also prophesy Psalm that Jesus used my God my God why have thou forsaken me prophesied about Jesus's sorrowful moment on the cross but what about this song something very special about this song some say that it has to do with the children coming out of babylonian captivity but the majority of the scholars say it had to do with a time in David's life when it was very rough a man with an anointing living like a fugitive rough a man that is called to serve a people who has openly rejected him rough a man that is called to take over a kingdom while the present king is still sitting on the throne I call that rough and so David had to hide in caves and foxholes because Saul the present King wanted to kill him why did he want to kill him because David had something that he had lost David was now kissed with God's favour David had the anointing dripping off of him and Saul couldn't take it tell your neighbor that's why folk hate me right now that's why they hate me right now so we the David go with the David go David at one point ran and hid in a cave of adoulin and he was in this cave it had become his headquarter and this is a fascinating period in David's life because because even though he was living like a fugitive he was still a leader is now 400 to 600 men had gathered themselves and surrendered themselves to his leadership very peculiar Bunch not the muck the mud not the rich in the famous men who were in debt men who were discouraged men who were discontented these were the rejects of society and they ran to a man who was also rejected but he had something that they wanted and that was leadership hard to find so they in the cave hiding and David you'll go to first samuel 22 and one just want to read you five verses so you'll kind of get the feel of what's happening here begins god's word david let the gap escape to the cave abdullah m-- when his brothers and his father's household heard about it they went down to him there all those who were in distress who were in depth those are the kind of people that we don't want nobody want poor folk or discontented gathered around him and he became their leader about four hundred men were with him from there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moore would you let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I learned what God will do for me so he left them with the king of Moab and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold but the Prophet tell you never thank God for a prophet the Prophet said do not stay in the stronghold tell you never get out of hide and get out of hiding go into the land of Judah the land of praise when you want deliverance you don't go in the cave you go to the land of pray when you want God to break the back of the enemy you don't go in a cave you go to the land of praise the press people go in a cave but when you want to come out of depression you don't have to take a pill you just have to pray so he left and went to do then why was it necessary for David to go to Judah and come out of that country because he had to be restored to his nationality he was going to be king of Judah he was going to be king of Israel he had to go back and connect with his people and connect with his assignment you had to come out the cave so you could be set up for your assignment not only that you are surrounded with pagans and superstitious people David and they have a way of contaminating you and with your kind of assignment you can't afford to be secular no one that's what's wrong with the church today we're being contaminated with secularism I know you don't like that but I want to say one more time we are influenced impressed fascinated and taken over by the world and all the world does is laugh with us because we are the ones who are supposed to influence and fascinate them get out of your hiding place if you keep hanging around then after a while you lose what I put upon you you keep hanging around you're gonna shake like Samson and nothing will happen after a while you will lose your focus and lose your passion and lose your purpose you got six hundred men depending on your commitment don't you hang out in that little corner right there come on out tell your neighbor come on out come on out now how do you preserve your position your place your passion your commitment in the mids of overwhelming secularism how do you stay clean how do you stay uncontaminated how do you keep it so straight when everybody doing it so crooked I'm almost finished how do you press forward and not get sidetracked how do you stay as a servant of the Lord and not let them make you a celebrity how do you hold on to the anointing that God has given you to destroy yoke and to further the gospel and not compromise it just a little bit how do you remain in the minority when they have isolated you ignored you how do you keep on pressing got three things and them out of your way it's right here David if you stay hanging out with these people you got your mama and your brother down there but you can't go down there and stay because you got to go further soon you'll be Kings in Hebron and then you'll be king of all of Israel you got somewhere to go you got somewhere to go ah there's a place I have for you you're going to affect history you're going to leave your print in this earth I've got an anointing to take you to another level come on boy get out of that corner get out you got too much to lose tell you maybe you got too much to lose it how do you do it the first point is you must have a praising heart that's one of the problems with the church even in leadership we know how to rock to the music but do we praise there's a difference than feeling good and feeling something and shaking with the music and God knows we got good music but but a praising heart has a certain kind of Constitution here it is my heart is fixed the worst person in the world is a person who is unstable Jacob was blessing his son and he said to Reuben you're unstable as water I would give you the kingdom you deserve the double portion you deserve to be the priest of the nation you deserve the birthright but I got to take it from you because you can't control your passion if you're with green people you're green if you were red people you're red if you're in a round cut your round if you're innocent I just can't trust your Reuben cuz your heart is not sick the heart in the Bible of the heart is used interchangeably with the will and the mind talks about your intellect the center of your feelings the center of your life for you people who do yoga since you're so fascinated you do yoga with Christian music and you do this yoga and it talks about centering going to your belly and centering yourself and being one with yourself it is how you get one with God I don't know about one with yourself but but but but your heart your emotions your intellect your will must be fixed and the word fixed means must be set up established it must stand firm heart is fixed the old folks used to say we don't say it anymore and my mind is made up thank God for them Obie I never met that do you know that wasn't as a church and stuff those mothers met that thing broken and got to walk to church and got one white dress but their heart was fixed and their mind wasn't wavering we're dealing at a time when people whaler they're not solid they're not sure they're not settled and the Bible said when you are unstable you will not get anything from God it means his heart was firmly established but now it's interesting his heart is that firmly established because he's king his heart is not firmly established because he's got everything that he wants his heart is firmly established time when things are hey why's is he's hiding in a cave Saul wants to kill him but right in the midst of trouble his heart is fixed if there's anybody that you can trust is a person whose heart is fixed when things are going bad ah you can't trust them when things are going well of course your heart is fixed when the but when the money is in the bank of course your heart is fixed when the home is okay of course your heart is fixed when your body is well oh when the storm is raging and your heart is fixed you're trustworthy I don't know why this man hates me I don't know why he wants to kill me I don't know why he's chasing me but my heart is fixed I don't know why Israel doesn't want me I don't know why I'm anointed as king I was minding my business and taking care of my father's sheep and look what my life has come to but my heart is it's so fixed that I'm unshakable ah I got my eyes set on him and I'm not gonna take it over Lord some may come and some may go but I got my eyes bet on God for he is my help he is my way and he's my strong tower if your heart is fixed put your hands together let me hear you one of the problems with the church today people are not settled they're a member of one church at 7:30 a member of another church at 11:00 they have been in this church for three months now they're in another church for three months their season is up over here and their season starts over there the church has become a circus where nobody is fixed he that is planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God can't grow if you're not planted can't be stable if you're not planted ah and God is not a crazy vineyard keeper you've got to abide in order to grow hardest things this is not fickle commitments or we reveal the spirit of fickleness it's taken over the land of the church like a peg every day everybody's got their own anointing your own private Holy Ghost the church has become a place where you visit but not a place where you get planted churches are in trouble we can't go by who is there on Sunday go we don't know you your ties are not there your name is not on the book your name is over there on the other side cuz it's a fickle generation but in the midst of tickle generation there's a group of people whose heart attacks Resolute's determine unshakable steadfast ah pocketbook is empty but steadfast eviction notice on the door but stack marriage about your blower but you wouldn't know it cuz I'm steadfast oh come on ladies and gentlemen that's why Jesus died to make you it I know some of the old don't know what I'm talkin about because you're taught by this secular gospel that you got to feel it you got to like it you got to make you relieved and that's why all we do is go from church to church looking for relief like Rolaids god never promised us release he promises his grace his mercy his power his deliverance his healing and whether I feel it or not I believe that he's able my god to do it seeding and the one that come on steadfast Viva I want to hear you praise him in the house every day churches are closing every day pastors are leaving ministries every day sayings are contemplating suicide because something has happened to our heart it's not fix the determine to go through Psalm 138 and one says I would praise you O Lord with all my heart before the gods I will sing your praise the Bible said that we must love the Lord with all our heart with all our mind with all our soul with all our strength with everything in us that's the only way to make it you see secularism they don't play they put all their monies and their energies into whatever they're doing maybe that's why you're fascinated so you've got to step up your game ah they are pulling out all the stops to attract your attention and if you are not settled in him you'll be bamboozled and food and next thing you know you'll be Hindu Pentecostal oh I know y'all didn't get that I know y'all didn't get there but I'm starting a firm foundation I'm holding up the blood-stained banner of the Lord and in him a truster and he's the way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the Father but by him and I don't negotiate it put your hands together and let me hear the church the shop wants every commander that god help me an amount so VI another way to avoid contamination that will subtly just get you off your course and next thing you know you have no desire passion vision to finish your work then you pass it on to people who are novices people that don't have any ethics people that can't get it together you just drop the vision in their hands so you could go off and entertain your secular experience but to keep yourself from being lured seduced flattered and bamboozled by people who have started you people who have done background check people know where you've been and what you did last summer people understand your taste and your moves they know how to press a certain button and they know if they press it they got you but look what you're forfeiting an assignment that comes out of heaven an opportunity to make a dent in the kingdom of L an opportunity to turn many hearts to God to change the course of the nation to stop the advancement of violence ah to turn things around by one intercession look what you're giving up just run up on the backer and your name and the little magazine ah you're willing to back up and sell your soul but tonight I rebuke the spirit of contamination Satan the Lord God rebuke you and the hand of God mind you I need somebody to help me up here put your hands together let me hear you praise him in the house Oh tell your neighbor keep the vision clear keep the vision clear one of the examples when Nehemiah was building the wall well versed sand outlets Tobiah and all they came to help him and he said no thank you and they kept pressing him but he was so focused his heart was so fix he said I don't have coffee or tea I'm not interested in having lunch because somehow when you have lunch you say too much and you give up too much I'm doing a good work and I don't want to be interrupted tell your neighbor I don't want to be interrupted oh come on many of you almost got into something because you were interrupted but I bind that spirit of interruption right now come on put your hands together I'm on assignment two with the devil of your assignment come on and let me hear your praise the second way to keep this thing gardens that your neighbor is too precious is to have not only a fixed art but to have a praising voice and in this text it means I will sing and the will there means it has nothing do it feelings I was saying now we know we know how to sing in church but singing was a part of the Hebrew worship and even the heathens worship singing the Israelites sang praise unto the Lord I will sing unto the Lord over 35 times in the songs I was singing to the Lord Psalm 13 and 6 I will sing praises unto the Lord Psalm 27 and 6 sing unto him a new song Psalm 33 and 3 so singing is an integral part first samuel 18 and 6 and it came to pass they came and when David was returned from the slaughter the Philistines that the women came out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet the king the Exodus one of my favorite scripture Miriam the prophetess Aaron's sister took a tambourine in her hand we don't play tambourines anymore and all the wind followed her with tambourines dancing I was sing unto the Lord but he is trying really harsh and riders thrown into the sea the Lord my god is my victory oh we need to sing and sing until the heavens open up we need to sing not to be entertained but to sing until chains fall Oh sing until hearts are broken until people's minds of change sing until curses come off of you uh you don't take a deep song just a little bit a song all you gotta do is say yes just sing yes and people go to shake it come on ladies and gentlemen we need to go back to old-fashioned singing with you to go grab the hammer all hail the power of Jesus Nick let angel prostrate form Oh crowd here but he's Lord of all yes I spit in vanity and pride caring not that my lord was crucified knowing not that it was for me died at Calvary my said tell your name of mercy there was great and grace was free but we don't sing those things anymore we don't sing our faith we sing our feelings you see when I sing my faith I get strong proud to one the lord I feel it prone to leave the god I love her but here's my heart here's my heart here's my heart O take and seal it seal it for that quote you can't sing that in backslide come on put your hands together I need somebody come on help me first Chronicle 16 and 8 dear thanks to the Lord calling his name make known among the nation's what he has done sing to him tell your neighbor sing sing sing something that makes sense saying put Jesus in the song she call his name Jesus and sit that's what makes a dealer tremble when you put Jesus in the song he don't know who you talking about unless you call his name but there's power in his name and that's healing this is where Pentecost is coming Sunday and sadly a whole lot of preachers and even no Pentecost were Sunday but but Ephesians 5 in 18 and I love this because it's where I came from and I will never leave it do not get drunk on wine see that see that now I know you sophisticated theologian says God didn't say wine drinking was a sin but since we know our people we know you can't hold your liquor but here it goes adhesions 5:18 said do not be drunk with one which leads to debauchery but be filled with the spirit speaking to one another with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs sing and make music in your heart to the Lord that's how some of us got the Holy Ghost we got drunk I know some of you sophisticated people think that that's ended with the first century now you don't need to speak in tongues cuz you're so theologically limited or but the same Holy Ghost that fell on Pentecost falls today and intends to make me drunk come on put your hands together we don't get drunk anymore tell your neighbor I need to get drunk in here tonight I need to get drunk James 5 and 13 says it's any one of you in trouble he should what pray is anyone happy that in one sing songs of praise now so so so we we keepin it real now with you can appeal we're keepin it real we're keeping it out of the hands of the enemy that wants to redefine us you see that's a that's the the plot and that's the design of the enemy to redefine Christianity they know they can't get rid of us how you gonna get rid of us we're like the women in Israel the Jewish women you try to get rid of us and we keep having babies just keep having babies oh lord have mercy you can't do nothing with Saints they're like cockroaches escape hatch and every here if we can't have it in here we have it in Australia we can't have it in Australia we have them in South Africa if we don't have them in South Africa we have them in Nigeria you can't stop the advancement of the church but since I can't stop it they want to redefine it and the devil is a liar you can't define me on this rock lord have mercy you want to redeem three define me by telling me what to preach but I can't breathe we want to redefine me by telling me not to say the three-letter word sin you want me call it challenges and struggles if I leave that out if I leave that out then there's no hope for the sinner you see but because the sinner is who Jesus came for he didn't come for the righteous he came for the sinner so we need to tell the sinner Jesus came just for you he wants you with your wretched raunchy selva he came for me with my lowdown wicked sinner saved by grace well you all help me praise him now cuz I am so happy no good no good absolutely no good in this black and white top no good lord have mercy if it's not his grace I wouldn't be here tonight I said no good ain't no good thing in me ain't nothing in me right but Jesus thought ah my righteousness is as a filthy rag and in the hero is a soiled feminine napkin ah that's how nasty I am but thank God great sir I know you think you wonderful that's why you keep sinning the day you accept the package wait no good that's when grace comes in as long as you're okay you gonna keep messing up but when you say God Here I am I'm absolutely no good I just can't get it together I'm a mess from the crown of my head to the sole of my seat and God said come here baby I got you I got you I got you come here baby you're the one I want I want you I died for you I love you put your hands together let me hear you so this wonderful thing this wonderful assignment this wonderful call is wonderful purpose tell your name I got purpose but I was class when you have purpose you know sleep all night long because the seal of the Lord and consumed burns within your soul a driving force that cannot be stopped a fire that cannot be quenched when you sleep all night seven days a week something happen to your purpose when you have purpose you can't all sleep all night long something move in you and shove it you so you gotta guard it cuz that's what the enemy wants you don't want your Mercedes and then we don't need praise me sayings I'm losing my car no no no the car is not the issue that's what's wrong with us we just worried about stuff is that after your car he used a car to get at you you don't want your house he just use the house to get at you what he wants is your faith and your purpose because what you have he has lost the devil lost it and will never have it and he doesn't want you to have it and you're dumb enough to make him put his hands on it but I want you to you have a fixed heart appraising voice and then finally is where the rubber meets the road right here it says in this one little verse is loaded even with my glory as it's possible to have your mind made up to serve the Lord it's possible to even say but here's the issue ray this flesh wants a piece of the glory I know y'all won't get quiet but I'm coming home we can sing and still take the glory I can preach and be effective but under the table I'm stealing some glory and that's the point of competition right there and we forgot that God said my glory I will not want ah you can have the blessing but you can't have the glory he says yet with my glory also with my glory that's what that word yet more over with my glory that means in addition to the singing and the fixed heart I'm adding something key what is glory you know we throw those words around glory glory means the person has the ability to carry the weight it literally means they're split their honor their greatness God is the only one who can carry the weight of my sin he's the only one that can bear the burden of my life I don't have the ability to carry the weight you want all that power but you don't have the ability to carry the weight what happens when you steal the glory and can't carry the way you fall lotta weight when you try to be everything to everybody lotta weight when you try to have everybody like you it's a whole lot of weight when you want to be popular and great cuz when the Cardinals go down that's too much way to go to bed with that's why you go to bed with something else can't carry the weight I know your lingo and help me you aren't made to carry the burden you were just made to agree with who is in charge so David is saying I know I'm in a bad place when I'm gonna praise you and my heart is fixed when I'm gonna give up something else cuz it doesn't belong to me in the first place what is man's glory your intellect you're so smart you can't stand yourself your tongue your tongue is so sharp yeah I'll talk yourself lord have mercy you're so talented you don't know what to do with yourself you see what I'm saying ah you want all the honor all the clap clap clap you want all the attention you want all the respect the wisdom all of the superiority you want to be up front you want the Magnificent to come on McCulloh can't we get a little clap clap-clap not the way you want it not the way you want it no no we gonna clap because you didn't well we want pay you cuz you did well we want to put your name on a piece of paper cuz you did when but that's not what we want ladies and gentle man we want the glory and the honor we want the attention and the credit lord have mercy what do I have that garden give me how come I wasn't born everything that I have I got it from the Lord when I woke up this morning because God woke me up when I move my fingers is because the nerves got hooked up in the right place put up had a stroke but the Lord kept me together so all the glory will come on and help me praise him right here as here all the glory this is how it works

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Published: Mon Jul 27 2015